Du saram-yida (2007)

User Rating:

5.2/10   

Director:

Ki-hwan Oh

Writers:

Lee Hyo-Chul (adaptation)
Kang Kyung-ok (comic book)

Release Date:

22 August 2007 (South Korea)

Genre:

Horror | Thriller

Plot:

This creepy, supernatural thriller revolves around the paranoid belief that those dearest to you may want you dead.

Plot Keywords:

Wedding | Ghost | Suicide | Gore | Murder

Cast

Jin-seo Yun	...	Ga-in Kim
Gi-woong Park	...	Sung-min
Ki-woo Lee	...	Hyung-Joong
Yu-seon Ham	...	Sang-kyung
So-eun Kim	...	Ga-yun Kim
Yu-mi Jeong	...	Myung-hee
Kan-hie Lee	...	Eun-kyung
Yu-jeong Seo	...	Jung-sun
rest of cast listed alphabetically:
Nae-sang Ahn
In-gi Jeong
Haet-nim Oh
Yun-jae Seo

Also Known As:

Voices (International: English title) (USA) (festival title)
Someone Behind You (International: English title)

MPAA:

Rated R for strong bloody violence throughout, and some language.

Runtime:

85 min

Country:

South Korea

Language:

Korean

Color:

Color

Aspect Ratio:

2.35 : 1

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

South Korea:18 | Germany:18 | Singapore:M18 | USA:R

Filming Locations:

Seoul, South Korea

Company:

Mogabi Pictures

Trivia:

When Ga-in is scanning the wall of the old man's home with the newspaper clippings and pictures, she reads a headline that says: "Argument with wife, father kills all four children." The bug-eyed image to the right of this is Goya's painting "Cronus Devouring One Of His Sons"; Greco-Roman mythology states that the titan Cronos/Saturn was told one of his sons would overthrow him as he overthrew his own father, so to prevent this, he devoured them all - reflecting the movie's theme of envy-provoked murders.

Don't trust anyone, not even yourself

In Sung-Nam City, the teenager Ga-in Kim (Jin-seo Yun) goes with her family and her boy-friend Hyung-Joong (Ki-woo Lee) to the wedding of her aunt Ji-sun and she sees the bride falling off a balcony. Then she witnesses Jung-sun (Yu-jeong Seo) violently stabbing her sister Ji-sun in the hospital. In school, the outcast Sung-min (Gi-woong Park) tells her that the events were not accidents and advises her to not trust anyone, friends, and family, not even herself. Ga-in believes in a family curse and almost gets killed by the classmate Eun-kyung (Kan-hie Lee); then by her teacher; then by her mate in fencing. When her mother attempts to kill her, Ga-in becomes completely paranoid and travels to visit a strange with Sung-min to seek answers for the curse.

"Du saram-yida" a.k.a. "Voices" is an ambiguous and confused tale of manipulation and paranoia with a great potential. Unfortunately the flawed and messy screenplay is never clear and it seems that Sung-min is indeed a manipulative demon or evil force that is visible only for his victims that pushes the characters to a paranoid behavior, culminating with a death wish. I like Asian movies that usually requires interpretation of the stories; however, the subplot with Ga-in's boyfriend is ridiculous and the weakest part of the complicated screenplay. My vote is five.

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